Teacher threatens 'cracker abuse' with communion wafer

Catholic League objects to 'hate speech' against beliefs

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=69384

I actually wondered if someone might take this to the next level. I didn't have to wonder for long. This was inevitable. When one considers the ridiculous teaching of "transubstansiation", sooner or later, a prankster will play games with it.

The Catholic League has launched a campaign to bring public scorn on a University of Minnesota-Morris teacher who threatened to treat a consecrated communion wafer, which Catholics believe becomes the body of Christ, "with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse."

To which the professor in question, Paul Zachary Myers, responded: "Scumbags."

The issue arose over an argument that didn't even involve Myers.

As WND reported, a student at the University of Central Florida reported getting death threats after he stole and later returned a wafer from a Catholic Mass in Orlando.

The student senator, Webster Cook, originally claimed he merely wanted to show the Eucharist to a friend who had questions about Catholicism before consuming the host

Catholic League president Bill Donohue said then, ""For a student to disrupt Mass by taking the Body of Christ hostage – regardless of the alleged nature of his grievance – is beyond hate speech. That is why the UCF administration needs to act swiftly and decisively in seeing that justice is done. All options should be on the table, including expulsion."

Into which argument Myers leaped.

On a personal webpage which was accessible from the Minnesota-Morris university site, until administrators apparently disconnected it, he wrote under the headline, "It's a Frackin' Cracker!"

"Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?" he wrote. "If any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won't be tempted to hold it hostage … but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the http://www.morris.umn.edu/index.php."

The ellipsis deletes a reference to what might be described as a physical attack on the pope. But what got the Catholic League's attention was the ending of the web address, the University of Minnesota at Morris.

"The Myers blog can be accessed from the university's website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the 'Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.' One of the school's policies, 'Code of Conduct,' says that 'When dealing with others, 'faculty et al. must be 'respectful, fair and civil.' Accordingly, we are contacting the president and board of regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature," Donohoe said.

Myers, instead of backing off, stepped up his attacks.

"Extortionists and witch hunters, that's all these scumbags are," he wrote. "When dealing with others, I must be respectful, fair and civil. Hmmm. Doesn't seem to say anything about when dealing with crackers."

"Hey, Bill! I can think of something more vile! How about intentionally desecrating the bodies of young altar boys who respect the position of trust held by Catholic priests? I think that is a lot more vile than mistreating a cracker. In fact, I can think of innumerable vile acts going on all around the world right now, and not all of them even involve Catholicism. It takes the moral vacuum of a purblind ideological bigot like Bill Donohue to think that goring his sacred cow is the worst thing in the world," said the entry "Posted by PZ Myers."

In the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Myers described himself as a card-carrying atheist, and said he'd gotten a few death threats over his words, "but I don't take them too seriously."

The newspaper, however, got dozens of comments about the situation, and Myers got hundreds.

"Would liberals feel the same if: Professor had blog ranting against blacks and showing nooses? It's only rope. Professor ranted against homosexuals and displayed burning rainbow flags? It's only fabric. Professor advocated taking pork into a mosque and called all muslims terrorists? It's only paper. With liberals, tolerance is a one-way street. You either agree with them, or are subject to thought crimes," wrote eloopd.

"If Mr. Myers made disparaging remarks against Islam, Jews or Buddhists – any religion but Christian – he would be fired, but since it is against Christians his remarks are tolerated as free speech. This is bigoted hate crime against Christians and Catholics. He should be fired. He won't because at the UofM this is acceptable," added KTG.
_________________
"The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State - This is Islamic Peace"

A moderate Moslem is one who sends others blow themselves up.

Atheist Professor Follows Through on Promise and Desecrates

Atheist Professor Follows Through on Promise and Desecrates Eucharist

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072309.html

If you are Catholic and any of this offends you...too bad. I find this absolutely funny. Maybe if you would stop following the doctrines of men and started reading Gods word for yourselves, you would see how inerrant RCC teachings are. Don't you realize that your "theology" has enslaved you from the very thing that Jesus came to set you free from? But no, you would rather sit stoically in your pews and allow another fallible human, backed by a huge fallible institution guide and direct your spiritual lives. While this is funny, I am sad for the millions of lives that have been put under the bondage of the "papal lordship".

I beg you, no...I implore you to study what the communion service really is. And don't study only RRC literature on it. Study other sources, type "communion" into whatever search engine you use and read, study the verses. Study how the practice of "transubstansiation" came into being.

What this atheist professor did should have woke you up! Because what he did should not have caused any kind of a stir what-so-ever. And I congratulate him. I shall pray for him because he still needs to know the Lord or he will know the Lord too late.

If you refuse to hear my words, there is nothing I can do about it. It's your choice. I am not gonna sit here and type out every scriptual error of the RCC, there's not enough bandwith in the whole world for that. But I do ask you humbly, to read scripture for yourself, I would suggest using a KJV or perhaps a New American Standard bible, leave the D-R sitting on the shelf. If you don't want to invest your money that way, you can download www.e-sword.net for free.

...story follows

MORRIS, Minnesota, July 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Catholics around the world were outraged earlier this month when an American academic exhorted his readers on his weblog to steal a consecrated Host from a Catholic Mass so that he might then desecrate it. Despite protests from Catholic organisations and hundreds of individuals contacting him personally, Professor Paul Zachary Myers has written that he has carried through with his threat.

A biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) and the author of the science blog Pharyngula, Myers is an avowed materialist atheist of the Darwinian school. On his blog he frequently writes disparagingly of religious belief, particularly Christian belief and is a member of the academic cadre opposed to the teaching of Intelligent Design in American schools.

On his weblog, which he promotes as "evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal," he wrote July 8, "Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers?... if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some, or even one, and mail it to me, I'll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare…[I will] treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web."

After a strongly worded protest from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Myers backtracked, telling the Star Tribune that the post was meant as "satire and protest" more than an actual threat. Later, however, on a radio talk show on Catholic Radio International, Myers confirmed that he had been sent an unspecified number of consecrated hosts and that he intended to "subject them to heinous cracker abuse."

The president of the Catholic League, William Donohue, said that the University of Minnesota's Code of Conduct applied to Myers' blog since the university linked to it directly. The University has responded today that the link has been removed but that Myers will not be subject to any disciplinary action.

Today Myers wrote on his 'blog, "Yes, the sad little cracker has met its undignified end, so stop pestering me. The cracker, the Koran, and another surprise entry have been violated and are gone."

The Eucharist is believed by Catholics to be the actual "body, blood, soul and divinity" of Jesus Christ, and desecration of a Host is the most egregious sacrilege to Catholics. Catholic commentators have noted that Myers' obsession with desecrating the most sacred objects of their religion shows that he, and his followers, have "nothing but contempt for Catholics, [and] have no real grasp of the interior contours of Catholic faith and belief."

Mark Shea, a Catholic apologist and author, wrote on the Inside Catholic website, "A host is a statue is a banner is a rosary is a Bible is a scapular, as far as they can tell."

Shea said that Myers' determination to desecrate the Eucharist is a straightforward act of hatred and bigotry, one that, moreover, is in secular terms also an act of "theft, vandalism, and incitement."

Myers obsession with showing Catholics that the Eucharist has no power is an indication of a mind unbalanced by bigotry, said Shea.

Myers wrote, "It's just so darned weird that they're demanding that I offer this respect to a symbol that means nothing to me...It won't be totally tasteless, but yeah, I'll do something that shows this cracker has no power. This cracker is nothing."

He responded, "No, what Catholics are demanding is not that Myers and his cultish followers respect the Eucharist. We are demanding that they not invade our religious services, steal what does not belong to them, and incite others to vandalize what is ours and not theirs."

"But the curious thing is that he cannot rest with mere verbal blasphemies. He has to get a host in his hands and destroy it with a savage glee that, curiously, places him not among scientists but among the most magical-thinking Bronze Age fanatics."

quote:

---

"But the curious thing is that he cannot rest with mere verbal blasphemies. He has to get a host in his hands and destroy it with a savage glee that, curiously, places him not among scientists but among the most magical-thinking Bronze Age fanatics."

---

Cracker abuse

I have not long been forced out of a church.....and a bible study teacher position in a street ministry because i dont hold to the rcc tradition of the communion.
Third Sunday is not The Passover.
The twisting of the Word gets to me a lot.
I believe that third sunday was a special day of fellowship for people in the early church....one we should still be doing in the latter church. It was bring a dish day....lets sing songs and Worship God and break bread together. Paul got onto people who were wealthy enough to eat daily about how they ate at these gatherings. Because many in the early church were poor....and when they came to these gatherings sometimes that would be the only time they ate for several days!
No, i dont do communion. I believe it to be a doctrine of men. No one can explain it to me in any way that makes sense.
Y'shua was celebrating the Passover meal with His Talmidin and teaching them about the prophetic implications that very HOLY DAY held.
And during Passover....there is no leaven in anything PEOPLE of God eat. Not just the Jewish folks. Anyone that cares to throw back the Robes of the Catholic Church can see that its a bastardized Judaism!
God didnt invent Catholicism....HE Brought HIMSELF for Worship. Not a religion.
Neither did HE come to create a new religion called Christianity.
HE came to reinstate HIMSELF for Worship.
As HE said in the books of the Prophets.
I think that this atheist professor has it dead to rights.
You reduce God to your limits and that will be your god.
Remember this.....because it will help you stay on an even keel in your walk.....
Not one word from MY mouth can change God.
But just one word from God's mouth can change me forever.
God has never fit into a nice neat little package.
He never will.
Read your Bible....and prove all things.
_________________
peace
Suzanne
Exodus 15:26